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Posted on 09/11/2022 5:22:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The concept of a blood-sucking spirit, or demon consuming human flesh has been told in the mythology and folktales of almost every civilisation throughout the centuries.
One of the earliest vampiric depictions stems from cuneiform texts by the Akkadians, Samarians, Assyrians and Babylonians, where they referred to demonic figures such as the Lilu and Lilitu.
During the late 17th and 18th century, the folklore for vampires as we imagine became rampant in the verbal traditions and lore of many European ethnic groups.
They were described as the revenants of evil beings, suicide victims, witches, corpses possessed by a malevolent spirit or the victim of a vampiric attack.
During the 18th century, vampire sightings across Eastern Europe had reached its peak, with frequent exhumations and the practice of staking to kill potential revenants. This period was commonly referred to as the "18th-Century Vampire Controversy".
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Archaeologists unearth remains of 17th-century female “vampire” in Poland
Female skeleton was buried with sickle placed across her neck and a padlock on big toe.
JENNIFER OUELLETTE - 9/6/2022, 12:52 PM
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/archaeologists-unearth-remains-of-17th-century-female-vampire-in-poland/
And, he still votes democrat.
Every time...
We need a lot of sickles!
DON’T OPEN IT!
sucks for him
Cool beams! The precautions worked!
Vampires were never really a thing... What was really a thing and it happened a lot, was burying people alive. It happened because people in the 19th and earlier centuries had no concept of what a coma was. It you didn’t awake after a day or so, they just buried you.
It doesn’t take much of an imagination to guess at what happens next... People digging themselves out of shallow graves and magically coming back to life. That wasn’t the sort of ‘magic’ people were looking for. They likely killed these living dead walkers on site and then reburied them with precautions.
Unless they owed them money....
There was a tombstone in Oklahoma (Now stolen) that listed the cause of death as “Killed by werewolves”
What’s Hillary doing in Poland?
Democrat ?
As someone once said, “Killing a guy by driving a stake through his heart works pretty good, even if the guy isn’t actually a vampire!”
Vampires suck.
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I see what you did there.
Bloody hell, they do!
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